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RE: [cobalt-users] SSH Help pls
- Subject: RE: [cobalt-users] SSH Help pls
- From: Rodolfo Paiz <rpaiz@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Fri Mar 16 08:08:12 2001
- List-id: Mailing list for users to share thoughts on Cobalt products. <cobalt-users.list.cobalt.com>
> Can anyone advise please how, I install my 'keys' on the Raq4i
>
> otherwise it seems to me that anyone with a SSH Client can use it as a
> telnet client - which means .. so what ..
>
> I'm obviously missing something very important.
Yes. While the installation of keys is beneficial, remember that both
telnet and SSH are *shell* access programs, i.e. they both do the same
thing.
What you're missing is that telnet transmits passwords in the clear; SSH
does not. You're at greater danger from someone intercepting a password
than from someone brute-force attacking your login prompt.
--
Rodolfo J. Paiz
rpaiz@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx <mailto:rpaiz@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>